Order of the Two Niles

Order of the Two Niles
The Order of the Two Niles is a state decoration of Sudan established on 16 November 1961 during Ibrahim Abboud's military government. The Order of the Two Niles – White and Blue Niles – is Sudan's second-highest honour after the Order of the Republic. The order is given to Sudanese and foreigners, civilians and military, who provided great services to the state. The order has five classes.
Classes
Insignia
The star, sash, and badge make up the First Class insignia. The star has ten points and is covered in gold. A ten-ended star is created by superimposing two five-pointed stars with truncated rays on top of one another. The surfaces of the stars are covered with vertical and, consequently, horizontal rays. The star consists of four layers and is particularly huge (102 mm) and heavy (8 1⁄2 ozs). A 40 mm white medallion sits in the middle with the inscription in dark blue: "El Nilein ", or "The Two Niles" in Arabic calligraphy. The gold medallion is attached to the ribbon by means of a transition element in the form of a rhinoceros pendant. Rhinoceros was the Republic of Sudan emblem until it became the Democratic Republic of Sudan and changed the emblem in 1985 to a secretarybird. The ribbon is Royal blue moiré with two 5 mm white stripes toward each edge and is 51 mm wide. The badge is of the same pattern but smaller, measuring 58 mm across.
Class II consists of the star and a neck badge, Class III consists of a neck badge, and Class IV and V consist of chest badges. The insignia is made by Garrard & Co (London, England), Eng Leong Medallic Industries and Bichay (Cairo, Egypt).
Notable recipients
Class I: Grand Cordon
1972 Burgess Carr for his role in mediating the Addis Ababa Agreement (1972)
1979 Ahmed Mohamed El Hassan
1988 Akef El-Maghraby
1999 Abdul Rahman Al-Sumait
2000 Jacques Diouf
2001 Amr Moussa
2001 Saleh Abdullah Kamel
2002 Stefan Jakobielski
2009 Essa Abdulla Al Basha Al Noaimi
2013 Suleiman Jasir Al-Herbish
2013 Deepak Vohra
2015 Hassan Ahmed Al Shehhi
2015 OPEC Fund for International Development
2016 Ghaith bin Moubarak Al-Kuwari
2016 Taleb Rifai
2016 Mohammed Matar Salem Al Kaabi
2016 Abdalrhaman Salih El-Benian
2017 Ghanem bin Shaheen Al-Ghanim
2017 Tareq bin Mosa la Zedjali
2018 Marta Ruedas
2018 Osama Shaltout
2018 José Graziano da Silva
2020 Mian Dutt
2020 Yevgeny Prigozhin
2021 Al-Hussein Ould Sidi Abdullah
2021 Emmanuel Platman
2021 Ahmed Ali Bri
2021 Ravdendra Prasad Jaswal
2022 Alberto Ucelay
2022 Abdul-Rahman bin Ali Al-Kubaisi
2022
2022 Hossam Issa
2022 Bassam Al-Qabandi
2022 Ma Xinmin
2022 Patricia Maria Oliveira
2023
2023 Lee Sang-Jeong
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Koča Popović
Norman Jackson
Adel Abdalaziz Al-Rshoud
Class II: Grand Officer
1985 Bob Geldof
2002
2004 Ahmed H. Zewail who was also awarded Egypt’s Order of the Nile in 1999
2006 William Y. Adams
2012 Sabah Al-Khalid Al-Sabah
2019 Ibrahim Osman El-Amir
2023 David Beasley
Class III: Commander
1972 Abdalah Grosh
Arthur Young
Jamal al-Faisal
Kamil Idris
Unknown class
1965 Anthony Derrick Parsons
1973 Sérgio Vieira de Mello
1974 Faisal bin Sultan Al Qassimi
1980 James Rodgers Allen
1984 Clive Kelday Smith
1988 Ahmad Fathi Sorour
1989 Mohamed Hamad Satti
1989 Daoud Mustafa Khalid
1990 Muhammed Saleh Abdul-Wahab
2001 Hosny El-Lakany
2001 Salim Ahmed Salim
2004 Peter Lewis Shinnie
2004 Ergon agathon
2005 Sepp Blatter
2005 Abdulaziz bin Ahmed Al Saud
2007 Raymond Stewart
2009 Rodolphe Adada
2016 Bashir Hassan Bashir
2017 Samora Yunis
2017 Abdillahi Omar Bouh
2017 Mohammad Al-Khodher
2018 Rashid Abdullah Al Nuaimi
Abdel Halim Mohamed
Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria
Sarabamon
Branko Mamula
Jean Leclant
References
Orders, decorations, and medals of Sudan
Awards established in 1961